Remember that survey about how we can sustain napari development? We extended the deadline until the 16th, AoE! Blog post: https://napari.org/island-dispatch/blog/sustainability_survey.html Survey: https://napari.typeform.com/sustainability If you use napari at all we would be super grateful if […]

Happy Halloween from the napari team!

You might have noticed lots of activity in the napari project recently! 🚀 We're grateful for a grant from CZI that's keeping us going, but grants don't last forever: we're trying to figure out sustainable long term funding. Read our blog post to find out how you can help […]

napari 0.6.6 is out! 🚀 This is a bugfix release following up 0.6.5: if something in your napari workflow unexplicably broke, you might want to update ;) Also, with the new bundle you can now "open files with > napari"! Check out the full release notes on the website […]

Join the new plugin sustainability initiative! 🚀 Everyone is invited to fill out this interest form: https://forms.gle/iwX6P4tuooHK5aKH9 Follow along with initial discussion on Zulip […]

napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀 Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: https://napari.org/dev/release/release_0_6_5.html

🚀 napari 0.6.4 is out! Highlights from this bite-sized release: launching scripts from the command line with `napari <path-to-script>` and making the console auto-focus when opened. We’ll be announcing all future napari releases here, so stay tuned! 🔗 Release notes […]

🚀 Big news! The napari hub has been reimplemented and is now community-run! :tada: It's still the go-to place for finding and sharing napari plugins, but the website is now snappier and lighter-weight. Check it out 👉 www.napari-hub.org

🚀 The napari team is excited to announce our brand new development roadmap — a community-informed vision for the future of napari. We’re laying the foundation for long-term sustainability, better docs, smoother releases, and exciting new features. 🔍 Read our blog to learn more about our roadmap […]

Reminder: the GloBIAS 2025 symposium is happening Oct 26-31 in Kobe, Japan, and, on top of many other cool bioimage analysis events, several members of the napari core team will be leading a napari hackathon. https://www.globias.org/activities/bioimage-analysis-conference-2025-in-kobe

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Any naparistas going to GloBIAS 2025, Oct 26-31 in Kobe, Japan? Thanks to the GloBIAS organisers 🙏, we will be hosting a napari hackathon in parallel to the FAIR workflows hackathon! More info on our Zulip […]

Wait, wait, wait....v0.6.0 is just out, but there is already a next big feature coming to napari? Yes! You see it right 😊 (more impressive demo coming soon) . Our own @brisvag has been doing work on multichannel grid mode which is to replace our current grid […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

And it's finally here! napari 0.6.0 is out on PyPI and conda-forge! 🥳 We've had a few threads about this release already but let's recap with some highlights: 🧵

napari 0.6.0rc0 is out! Barring any crazy bugs 🐛, 🙏 napari 0.6.0 should be out next week, Apr 30.

Our next Atlantic community meeting is coming up! Wed 8:30am SFO / 11:30am NYC / 5:30pm Paris. Come chat with core devs about napari 0.6.0 (due imminently! 😅), ask for advice, demo your cool plugin! Agenda: https://hackmd.io/BXWDZ3i8Q6OAEASrkaSNIQ Zoom […]

Many folks are hurting right now, but there are pockets of opportunity… Are you an organisational powerhouse with a passion for open source and open science? @NumFOCUS, which supports projects including @numpy, @Spyder, @napari and many more, is looking for its next Executive Director. A *lot* […]

Hello all, Hopefully the last community meeting now before 0.6.0 lands 😅 This has been a lot of hard work the last weeks by multiple people! Want to discuss the release or have any napari questions for core devs or want to show a cool demo? Come join tomorrow! […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

It's taking us some time but it's gonna be worth the wait we promise! 😅 napari 0.6.0a1 is out now! You can install it with `pip install "napari>=0.6.0a1"`. The full release notes are here: https://napari.org/0.6.0/release/release_0_6_0.html But to save you a click here's a short thread: 👇

Our Atlantic community meeting is tomorrow, April 9, 5:30PM CET, 8:30AM PT. We will discuss bringing the web to napari (see the very rudimentary initial example below)! We know you have been asking for bringing napari to the web for a long time. We are planning on it! In the meantime, we bring […]

Another community contribution! Taking screenshots of regions of interest has been made a lot easier with help of our community member Sesan Ajina! Here, a code example: napari.org/dev/gallery/... Soon, more on how we are making publication ready figures easier with help of our community members!

Hello all, We are now very close to landing 0.6.0. Here is your last chance to give feedback and report your issues at the community meeting at 8:30am SFO / 11:30am DC / ⚠️ 3:30pm London / 4:30pm Paris ⚠️ . Agenda: https://hackmd.io/BXWDZ3i8Q6OAEASrkaSNIQ […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Sometimes, our community contributions don't have a graphical example, but are definitely worth highlighting! Did you know that thanks to Sammy Hansali's PR (github.com/napari/napar...), napari supports saving image files > 4GB?

Gearing up for our 0.6.0 release now we have the alpha release out, it is time to look back on some of the awesome features implemented by contributors of the community since 0.5.0. First off an awesome contribution) by GitHub user beanli161514 to enable 3D […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Please hold while we ready the 0.6.0 release… 😅 In the meantime, though, come to our latest Atlantic community meeting and hear all about it! 8:30am SFO / 11:30am DC / ⚠️ 3:30pm London / 4:30pm Paris ⚠️ (note the altered Europe times due to the DST […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Our next community meeting is coming up! Join us at 9am CET (Paris/Warsaw/etc) / 1:30pm IST (Delhi) / 7pm AEST (Melbourne). Zoom: https://numfocus-org.zoom.us/j/83351642622?pwd=avon14qhl1ZTaxg91KP5z1OUrawi5d.1 Agenda: https://hackmd.io/9vo_DiJpSfuUExeGqVHbDQ Community meetings are a resource […]

Hi naparistas! A reminder that all are welcome at our next (Atlantic) community meeting, Feb 12, 8:30am SFO / 11:30am NYC / 5:30pm Paris. Agenda and details here: https://hackmd.io/BXWDZ3i8Q6OAEASrkaSNIQ Community meetings are for every napari user and developer. Get a chance to speak with […]

TL;DR installers are really challenging to make. The team made some tooling for @napari that was so fantastic that it is spreading across the scientific python ecosystem! https://labs.quansight.org/blog/napari-conda-constructor-menuinst

Hello naparistas! In recent months, core dev @czaki has been hard at work to improve the performance of our Shapes layer. We've now released napari 0.5.6rc0 with the option to turn on C++ acceleration of Shapes layer startup time. If you use the Shapes layer please help us with testing! Check […]

I made some updates to the tiled rendering branch in @napari. If you have uv installed, then this should open the mouse liver FIB-SEM dataset from OpenOrganelle: uv run https://atrium.kyleharrington.com/visualization/napari-tiled-zarr/0.0.3.py s3 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

New Year, new job? Delighted to announce two early-career-level (post-BA/BS or MA) positions in my lab, and an open call for computational postdocs at the Broad! First, an image analysis associate - work on high content screens for all kinds of cells and dimensionalities! See more at link (1/4)

Second, we're looking for an Associate Software Engineer to work on CellProfiler! Come make a difference on software that helps thousands of biologists around the world every year. See link below for more info and to apply. (2/4)

@loicaroyer.bsky.social Neat! I'm curious about the rendering parameters/tricks e.g. to get such sharp lines at the big-cube borders — they (correctly?) look razor-thin in @napari. https://gist.github.com/jni/14f9fbf388b4e129ba30128863e6b9d9